Month: March 2023

People don’t usually think about Adele in the same breath as Johnny Cash. The Beastie Boys in the same breath as Jay-Z. Justin Bieber and Slayer. Neil Young and Lady Gaga. The Dixie Chicks and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But all of these iconic artists have a single person in common: producer Rick Rubin.

Ever since Rubin created Def Jam Recordings from his college dorm room forty years ago and helped launch the global phenomenon that is hip hop, Rubin has produced some of the world’s most popular records. If you look at his discography, it’s almost unbelievable. Rubin works on up to ten records a year, and has become something of a high-priest of popular music. 

Today, I talk to Rubin about his new book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being. We talk about what it means to be creative, how to trust your own gut, separating the art from the artist, what he thinks of growing self-censorship in our music, art and culture, and what it means to listen in an era of non-stop distraction.

And to follow Rubin’s next projects, you can visit tetragrammaton.com

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Hello from Jay’s flooded basement! (Apologies for our less-than-ideal audio.) 

This week, our guest is Bryce Covert, a writer who covers the culture and work of child care (and its increasingly dire state) in the U.S. Bryce tells Jay and Tammy [14:50] what she’s been hearing from providers as pandemic-stimulus funding dwindles; [27:55] why care workers haven’t been able to win better pay, even in a strong labor market; and [52:25] how private-sector incentives might help—but don’t go nearly far enough. (A lot of our references are to hetero nuclear families, but the pain is universal!)

In this episode, we ask: 

Why do Jay and Bryce have to apply to 94 summer camps to make sure their kids aren’t marooned?

What would an ideal child care system look like? At what age would public care and schooling begin? 

What can we learn from previous U.S. policy and experiments elsewhere?

Why does an adequate child care system feel politically impossible? 

For more, see Bryce’s writing… 

In The Nation: 

The Childcare Crisis Is Getting Worse

Child Care Providers Are Organizing, Demanding More, and Winning 

In Early Learning Nation: "I Can't Compete": Child Care Providers are Losing Staff to McDonald's and Target

In Lux: Child Care: The Radical is Popular

Also read:

* James Butler on the social care crisis in the U.K. 

* Dana Goldstein on child care and private equity 

* The ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ Effect (i.e. wealthy parents’ version of this crisis) 

* More on the childcare provision in the CHIPS Act

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Today we are discussing the tragedy in Nashville, Matt Taibbi’s recent visit from the IRS, an Oreo study and Chat GPT saves a dogs life.

Time Stamps:

13:10 Nashville Update

34:02 IRS

39:32 Chat GPT Vet

42:16 Oreo

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What Could Go Right? is produced by The Progress Network and The Podglomerate.

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